Who owns the Finnish language?
The Finnish language is of interest to the Finnish state. At the end of last year, the Ministry of Justice published a strategy to promote the well-being of the language. A committee appointed by a state research institution issues recommendations on how the language should be used. Research and teaching of Finnish are supported with public funds. Is the Finnish language therefore truly the property of the Finnish state, subject to its authority?
History, at least, does not support such an idea. Most languages have emerged spontaneously, without decrees from politicians. First, groups of speakers of a particular language have moved farther apart from one another. Over time, dialects have developed, and these dialects have gradually diverged into new languages.
There are, of course, different kinds of cases as well. For example, in the Balkans, new languages emerged following the dissolution of Yugoslavia. State borders also make Meänkieli, spoken in Sweden, a language of its own, even though from a linguistic point of view it could equally well be considered a dialect of Finnish.
Finnish, however, belongs to the first group. It developed centuries, if not millennia, before the Finnish state was even dreamed of.
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